Volkswagen ID.3 Forum

sidehaas wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 5:42 am You can set different settings for this, but most people in the UK use miles/kWh, which is probably set as the default if you have a UK car.
Yes, it's basically the equivalent of mpg. It's literally how many miles you get per kWh of battery used at your current consumption (which varies all the time with driving style, average speed, hills, temperature etc.) There are 58kwh usable in the UK battery.
In summer, 4 is pretty good as an averageon most journeys and 3.5 is pretty good on motorways. It's heavily impacted by average speed. In winter, you can drop those 'good' figures quite a bit as it's also heavily impacted by cold weather. I've had my car since January and my overall long term average since new is 3.3mi/kwh.

sidehaas wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 10:00 am A: instantaneous power consumption (the units change to mi/kWh when the car starts moving - when stopped it's just kW, but insists on presenting kWh/hr, which is the same thing)
B/C/D - yes, since your last start, charge or long term depending what you selected at the top.
The average speed just seems to divide the distance by the time since last start or charge etc, so if you stopped for a while in the middle of the journey it will look very low (the 'since start' data only automatically resets when you have been stopped for two hours.)

TheMack wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 9:35 am

sidehaas wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 5:42 am You can set different settings for this, but most people in the UK use miles/kWh, which is probably set as the default if you have a UK car.
Yes, it's basically the equivalent of mpg. It's literally how many miles you get per kWh of battery used at your current consumption (which varies all the time with driving style, average speed, hills, temperature etc.) There are 58kwh usable in the UK battery.
In summer, 4 is pretty good as an averageon most journeys and 3.5 is pretty good on motorways. It's heavily impacted by average speed. In winter, you can drop those 'good' figures quite a bit as it's also heavily impacted by cold weather. I've had my car since January and my overall long term average since new is 3.3mi/kwh.

Ok, so do have the following bits of info correct based on the Now attached Picture ?
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A. Charge used since start / charge
B. Miles travelled since charge / start
C. ??? Average sped since start / Charge
D. Miles per kWh or in ICE terms MPG ?

So realistically, the higher the value in D m/kWh the better the range per 80/full charge.
A B are purely just for alternate views on the info, and C still eludes me lol.

Regards

TheMack wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 9:54 pm Thank you all for responding

I will have to keep an eye on it and see how it goes. I will figure it out I am sure. While out this evening with my lad, we were flicking through the settings and checking the vehicle screen, and one setting came up as Drive mode with Traffic on Left hand side or Traffic on Right hand side.

Easy one I thought, I need to change this from right to left, then I thought, hang on, does it mean traffic as in where I am driving or oncoming traffic...

Anyone have any ideas ?

G43FAN wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 7:03 am

TheMack wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 9:54 pm Thank you all for responding

I will have to keep an eye on it and see how it goes. I will figure it out I am sure. While out this evening with my lad, we were flicking through the settings and checking the vehicle screen, and one setting came up as Drive mode with Traffic on Left hand side or Traffic on Right hand side.

Easy one I thought, I need to change this from right to left, then I thought, hang on, does it mean traffic as in where I am driving or oncoming traffic...

Anyone have any ideas ?

It's poorly worded and apparently refers to where you sit to drive the car, so for UK 'Drive on right' is correct. It will default back to that anyway so no point changeing it. Should also update automatically by location if you do go over the water with it. (or under).

TheMack wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 5:00 pm I do actually have another question, and don't want to open a new thread.

Every morning when I get in the car I find that the miles remaining is lower than the night before. EG Yesterday when I finished I had an estimates 128 miles range left, get in this morning and its 117 miles. And it is always a drop of around 9 - 12 miles in the range.

Is the battery consumption really that high while it is stood not doing anything or what is that about ? (Does it tie into the 2 hour reset thing, which doesnt add up as its stood for 2 hours+ between uses and the range doesn't change during the day).

Regards,

sidehaas wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 5:28 pm There is no measurable (via the normal infotainment) battery consumption in an ID left overnight (or even for a week) unless something is wrong, or if you are preheating the car.
Look at whether the actual battery % has reduced - either in the charging screen or in the app. If it hasn't then it's just the GOM playing games. Apart from ambient temperature it could also be because you have been running the Aircon/heating differently (for example if it was turned off when you looked at the GOM the previous evening but turned on now.)